CALC Receives Staff Determination Regarding Nasdaq Delisting

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- California Coastal Communities, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALC) announced today that on October 28, 2009, it received a delisting determination letter from the Nasdaq Stock Market Listing Qualifications Staff indicating the Staff's decision to delist the Company's common stock from the Nasdaq Stock Market pursuant to Nasdaq Marketplace Rules 5100, 5110(b) and IM-5101-1. The determination was made following the Company's recent filing of a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code pursuant to which the Company is seeking to extend the maturity dates and change the repayment schedules for its approximately $182 million of Brightwater credit facilities in order to repay the debt in full in 2013 based on currently expected home sales over the next four years.

The delisting determination letter further advised the Company that trading of its common stock will be suspended at the opening of business on November 6, 2009 unless it requests a hearing before a Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Hearing Panel to appeal the proposed delisting. The Company is evaluating whether to request a hearing with the Panel to appeal the proposed delisting, or to not appeal the Staff's decision and allow its common stock to be delisted. If the common stock is delisted, the Company expects that it will not be immediately eligible to trade over the OTC Bulletin Board or in the "Pink Sheets," however, the common stock may become eligible for such trading if a market maker makes application to quote the common stock in accordance with Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 15c2-11, and such application is cleared.

The Company is a residential land development and homebuilding company operating in Southern California. The Company's principal subsidiaries are Hearthside Homes which is a homebuilding company, and Signal Landmark which owns 105 acres on the Bolsa Chica mesa where sales commenced in August 2007 at the 356-home Brightwater community. Hearthside Homes has delivered 2,200 homes to families throughout Southern California since its formation in 1994.

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